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...stump, Forbes has been far more consistent and successful than Dole at keeping his message clear and upbeat and letting the faceless announcers in the TV commercials do the dirty work. On the record, off the record, on deep background, he and his aides recite their lines without wavering one word from the script...
...blaming the press for the public response to his speech. "We're sorry if the liberal press doesn't like it. If you don't sing their songs, you don't get good reviews." By Saturday the red-meat passages about Clinton and Hollywood were back in Dole's stump speech in New Hampshire. The campaign plans to call 60,000 Dole supporters in Iowa, hauling back in line any who appear to be straying. They will call any Forbes supporters who oppose abortion, to remind them that Forbes does not oppose all abortions. Then comes the direct-mail avalanche...
...mind. Chastened by vetoes and reeling from the President's surge in the polls, the G.O.P. has shifted strategy. After the State of the Union, the Speaker talks less like a revolutionary than a dealmaker, eager to bank some quick accomplishments rather than send his colleagues to the stump empty-handed. Passing symbolic pieces of the G.O.P. agenda on a monthly installment plan is the strategy du jour, meant to offer voters a preview of what life under a Republican President might be like. While the Democrats may not go along with this, the irony for the G.O.P. agenda...
...husband had been killed in fighting several months earlier--she fled with them from the northwestern Burundian village of Nyabitaka into the hills, eventually crossing the Rusizi River to a refugee camp in neighboring Zaire. "I will never go back," Nyahimana said last week of her homeland, waving the stump that is all that remains of her right arm. "There is nothing left...
...degrees outside. The sun blazed down upon the Quad for two beautifully warm days. The god's nose dripped and its coiffe sagged. It became Elvis again, then Lincoln in old age. On Friday it was an eight foot tall, five foot wide stump. By the weekend the putrid, freezer-burned grass emerged and all that was left of that magnificient thing was a perfectly circular patch of snow...